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ZeoVGM

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/trump-sessions-firing-senators-white-house-803922

The willingness of Republican senators to turn on Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the result of a furious lobbying campaign from President Donald Trump, who for the past 10 days has been venting his anger at Sessions to "any senator who will listen," as one GOP Senate aide put it.

The president, who has spent a year and a half fulminating against his attorney general in public, finally got traction on Capitol Hill thanks to the growing frustration of a handful of GOP senators with their former colleague – most importantly, Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, who have been irritated by Sessions' opposition to a criminal justice reform bill they support, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen congressional GOP aides, Trump advisers, and Republicans close to the White House.

Trump hasn't been pushing his case just with Republican senators: He's worn down his lawyers, too, according to two Republicans close to the White House. Though they once cautioned him that dismissing Sessions would feed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump's potential obstruction of justice, these people say, Trump's legal team has become increasingly convinced Mueller will make that case regardless of whether the president fires Sessions or leaves him in place.

Seized by paroxysms of anger, Trump has intermittently pushed to fire his attorney general since March 2017, when Sessions announced his recusal from the Russia investigation. If Sessions' recusal was his original sin, Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn't have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can't stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn't a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he "talks like he has marbles in his mouth," the president has told aides.
 

Vas

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah, he got to Graham, who is already working to help Trump fire Sessions for their 'relationship,' which is sour because he won't help Trump escape justice for his crimes.
 

Surfinn

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he can't stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn't a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he "talks like he has marbles in his mouth," the president has told aides.
Yeah cuz Trump sounds fantastic and not like a slurring alcoholic when speaking.
 
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ZeoVGM

ZeoVGM

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Oct 25, 2017
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I thought it was supposed to be illegal.


I guess trump is the almost.

Yes, a quick reminder for everyone:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli.../trump-flipping-almost-illegal-manafort-cohen

"And I have seen it many times. I have had many friends involved in this stuff. It's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal."

I still think Donald was confused and thought that "flipping" was a reference to an HGTV show like House Hunters.
 

III-V

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Oct 25, 2017
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Sessions is a scumbag but not as nasty as trump. It is literally insane how morally and ethically bankrupt this man, administration and party are.
 

SamAlbro

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Oct 25, 2017
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Sessions is going to get an immunity deal and be one of Mueller's star witnesses in the impeachment. It's the only way somebody this implicated in a series of crimes would stand up to protect an investigation into those crimes.
 

Skelepuzzle

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he can't stand his Southern accent

God I wish there was audio of this, just so his supporters would have to explain it away with "when he's right he's right, we do sound like a buncha dipshits!"

I don't feel that way, but they'd have to
 

Rivenblade

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Nov 1, 2017
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Who are we loyal to?

Donald!

Who do we hate?

Our own party!

What are our ethics?

We don't have any!
 

Imperfected

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Nov 9, 2017
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It's also doubly hilarious because he doesn't actually care if any of his appointees have credentials for the actual task assigned to them, he literally just uses "four year throwaway degree from an Ivy League school" as a yacht club criteria and not an actual standard for quality of education.
 

EdibleKnife

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Oct 29, 2017
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This is what happens when you have a scumbag just like yourself in charge, Sessions. Hopefully, he's the downfall of you and the whole party when he implodes.
 

Stardestroyer

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Oct 31, 2017
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Sessions is a scumbag but not as nasty as trump. It is literally insane how morally and ethically bankrupt this man, administration and party are.
Sessions is simply a less dumber version of Trump. He cares in this case because he gave up his seat to be Trump's punching bag and he realizes if he loses he will fade into irrelevance.
 

SaviourMK2

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Oct 25, 2017
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I said it before. The reason good triumphs over evil is because evil always betrays itself.
Republicans will backstab each other for a dollar.

Every single one of them are traitors and cant be counted on to support each other. Republicans dont care about country or party, just themselves.
 

Shoeless

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Oct 27, 2017
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God I wish there was audio of this, just so his supporters would have to explain it away with "when he's right he's right, we do sound like a buncha dipshits!"

I don't feel that way, but they'd have to

It would be hilarious to hear Trump supporters saying that only coastal elite/loser libtards speak with a Southern accent, and real Americans sound like they're from New York. Man, people from the South would have to hate themselves so much just to keep supporting Trump. And they'd do it too.
 

SaviourMK2

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It would be hilarious to hear Trump supporters saying that only coastal elite/loser libtards speak with a Southern accent, and real Americans sound like they're from New York. Man, people from the South would have to hate themselves so much just to keep supporting Trump. And they'd do it too.

I have to agree with Skelepuzzle. Alot of them would be like "yeah yeah our southern accents are annoying, the way we speak sux"
 

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"The attorney general doesn't have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can't stand his Southern accent"

I mean... this one single part makes sense to me...
 
Oct 25, 2017
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I'm sure they'll make the obstruction case regardless. Firing Sessions will only cement it.

But yea someone got to Rand Paul and Graham. Graham especially has done a complete 180 on everything.
 

Netherscourge

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Only Donald Trump could make me like Jeff Sessions, if for no other reason than he pisses off Donald Trump.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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Yep, apparently his brother's alcoholism and death turned Trump off the drink.

Now cocaine and quaaluds, who is to say?
According to a male model who was present at on of Jeffrey Epstein's (iirc) parties with Trump, Trump prefers to say sober. 'Course, there was more going on at those parties than coke and booze. Wish I could find the guy/interview.
 

Strike

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Hasseigaku

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Can you even imagine a Democrat trying to fire someone because he doesn't like his southern accent? Can you imagine?